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amaramatonstammai State. YELLOWSTONE VALLEY STAR t. For Congress: For Aasociats REFUSED \'WAGE INCREASE Coal Operators Reject .Pleas Both for More pay and for Eight Hour Day. UNIONS TO TAKE STEP Mine Owners Declare That to Comply , With Workers' Demands Would Be a Breach of . Faith With the Public. Philadelphia, Pa.—Declining to re- spell the award of the United States stfitIn•acite coal coinmission, the mine operators here have rejected the de- mands of the hard coal Mine workers for itdditional wage increases, a mini- mum six dollar day labor rate and 'the establishment . of. a . universal eight hour day. • • •. -The operators, however, notified the Miners': representatives that they stood ready to adjust any l'individual cases of inequality\ that may be die to the application of the commission's award. Mine workers' repreientatIves told the operators that they cotfid not ac- cept an compronilse and stood by heir original demands. They said that the entire matter would o be placed before the union's gen- eral scale committee at a special meet- ing in Hazleton twit Tuesday -when a \definite policy for future action\ will be outlined. The miners Asked, general increases of approxknately 13 per cent in addt- tIon:to the 17 per cent granted them by the commission. This, they con- tended, would give them wage ad- vances equal tolhe 27 per cent recent- ly awarded • the bituminous mine work- ers. The operators In rejecting the Min- ers' proposals, declared that the agree- ment with the United Mine Workers based on the findings of the commit- tee, was a \binding contract\ and its. repudiation would be a \breach of faith with the public.\ They also held that mediation and collective bargain- .ing•have value only inabfar as both sides adhere to agreements which re- sult from such action. \In the judgment of operators,, no ,condition has arisen since the award of the commiselon,\ added the operators' reply, \either in general wage struc- ture of Vie country or in the cost of living which has produced a burden upon the anthracite workers. On the contrary, many classes of workers in other Industries have voluntarily ac- cepted a reduction in wages and the cost of living Ilea igen-di-1y declined.\ Representatives of the mine workers Issued a statement declaring that the' association of the operators, with ref- erence \to the woriF of the commission and the general industrial -conditions of the country, which they picture as being chaotic has nothing, to do with and does not intelligently answer the just contentions of the mine workers to general inequalities.\ More than 125,000 anthracite. mine Workers are affected by the operators' , reply. ARRANGE CHRISTMAS TRUCE • Intermediators Labored for Peace in Ireland Over iaolidays. • London—Intermediators who for sev- eral weeks have been quietly trying to bring together the imperial govern- ment and Irish representatives for the eventual arranging of a truce in Ire- land are not ceasing their endeavors despite the near approach of Christ- mas, which it waft hoped, would mark the cessation of the long continued reign - of terror. Archbishop Clune.of Perth, western Mistretta, whose activities in Ireland and London are believed to have an important bearing on the preliminary negotiations, has returned here and is reported to have an appointment with Premier Lloyd George, but he has re- fused to discuss the prospects of a settlement. In 'other quarters, however, it is in- timated that the negotiations now go- ing on behind the scenes may be ex- pected to come into the open at any moment with an established common ground for actual peace parleys. Hamon Left No Will. Kansas City, Mo.—Jake L. Hanlon,. late Repu l blican national committee- man from Oklahoma and oil magnate; left no will and reportfi that there Is a document naming Miss Clara Smith' as a beneficiary are erroneous as far as be can ascertain, according to a state- ment here by Fred Ellis of Ardmore, Okla., attorney for Mrs. Jake L. Ha- mlin, the *idow. Mr. Ellis, who said he was here on business In connection with the He- inen estate, dediared that he and oth- - era interested had made thorough search of Mr. HamOn's personal effects and had failed to find a Ogee of a will. • • • • Italy is in Turmoil. Bologlis, Italy—A serious claph . Oc- curred at Ferrara, 25 .miles north of Bologna, where the Socialists had or- ganized a demouatration in protest against recent !Malts in Bologna upon• Socialist deputies. Pont' person. were killed and more than' 30---tounded be- fore the police and troops, who were rushed to the spot, eeetoreil ,order. Fifteen red guards, who, were among a large number who had tired - upon the. nationalists from an adjacent castle, Were arrested. Thp others esped, a COUNT SPIRIDOVITCH Ma). Gen. Count Arthur Tcherep- SpiridevItch, president of , the Anglo- Latino-Slav league in Paris, Rome, Lisbon, etc., and of the Society Siavia in Moscow, Petrograd, etc., formerly president of the Slav society of the Freedom committee in the United States and of the Balkan committee in Paris. He is here to interest capital and labor in the promotion of Russian properties, PILGRIM TRIALS RETOLD Sen. Lodge Delivers Oration At Tercentenary. Celebration. Representative of Great Britain : nd Holland Join With Americans in Ceremony. Plymouth, Mass.—On the shore of Plymouth bay, where \tha breaking waves dashed high\ when the Pil- grims set toot on Plymouth Rock on December 21, 1620, their descendants joined with other distinguished men of this generation in America, Great Britain and Holland in abserving with due solemnity the tercentenary of their landing. The orator was Sen- ator Henry Jabot Lodge, a successor In representation in the Senate from Massachusetts of Daniel Webster, who delivered the famous \Plymouth Ora- tion\ at the two hundredth anniver- sary. An address was -delivered by Gover- nor Calvin Coolidge, vice president- elect, and a poem, \1620-1920 was read by Dean LeBaron R. Briggs of the faculty of arts and aciences of sciences of Harvard university. Hymns appropriate of the occasion were sung, including the \Landing of the Pilgrims\ by Mrs. Felicia Hemane. known to every American school boy and girl for generations. Senator Lodge gave a scholarly out- line of the Pilgrim story and in draw- ing from it a lesson for present day America he pointed out that \they set character first,\ \sought to give men freedom both in body and Tied\ and \tried to reduce the sum of human misery.\ • USE OF HARD CIDER LEGAL • • Home Manufacturer May Have It Even If Intoxicating, Says Palmer. ‘Vashington—Ulfe of cider in the home by its manufacturer, even after it has become intoxicating by fermen- tation, is lawful and without tke bounds of the prdhibition enforcement act according to' an apinion submitted to, the Secretary of the treasury by Attorney General Palmer. The opinion is in ',direct conflict with regulations of the Bureau et Internel Revenue, Which states that homemade cider must be \nonintox- !eating In fact,\ although not neces- sarily containing less than one-half pt 1 per cent alcohol. MARINES IN HAITI CLEIRED Wachinton—The naval court of In- quiry which investigated the conduct of marines in Haiti reported to Secre- tary Daniels that there \had been no nroper zrottncla\ for the statement by Brigadier General George Barnett, for - 'tiler commandant of. the Marine corps, that the .American 'occupation forces had been guilty of \practically indite criminate killing\ of- Haitians. Orchard's Freedonf Urged. Boise', Idaho—Plans are well under way for the presentation to the state board of pardons of a petition to parole Harry Orchard, self-confessed mur- derer of former Governor- Frank Steunenberg who was killed by a time bomb -planted' at his gate it Caldwell, Idaho, on the night of December 31, 1905. • HOUSE ADOPTS FAINER TARIFF Fordney Emergency Bill Wins Despite Protests of Dc - fiat Minority. VOTE STOOD 196 TO 86, Measure Is Designed to Protect Some Twenty -odd Farm Products For a Ten Months Period—Defeat in Seekte Predicted.' Washington—Over the protests of a defiant minority, the House adopted the Fordney emergency tariff bill by a vote of 196 to 86. The vote was taken after eight hours of debate. A political analysis of the vote showed 154 Republicans for, and 4 against; 4 Democrats for, and 72 against; 1 Prohibitionist, Representa- tive Randall of California, voted for the bill. Representative Walter H. Newton, Minneapolis, voted against the bill. Explaining his opposition, in a speech . to the House, after he had vainly tried to have the bill amended so as to pro- tect contract purchasers of wheat, he declared that the measure was a \Jug Handled\ bill, whipped into shape hastily without careful study, and that It was so trained as to include pro- ducts from the South as well as the North, so as to get Democratic as well as Republican votes, in case of a veto. Veto is Expected. That President Wilson will veto the bill, in case it passes the Senate, is in the minds of most of the members in Congress. Representative Ellsworth, Keller and Cruse, of Minnesota, were absent when the vote was taken. All other north- western representatives voted in favor. It was evident, long before the vote was taken, , that supporters of the measure, designed to protect some twenty -odd farm products for a ten months period, had the situation well in hand. But Representative Rainey, Democrat, of Illinois, leading the op- position, -'opened a bitter attack, which increased in intensity as the debate wore on. Opposition speakers charged that the measure would send the cost of liv- ing higher, and branded it as class legislation. Defenders of the bill, on the other hand, said it would save the agricultural industry. Only Way To Bring Relief. Representative Gardner, Democrat, Texas, 612_01(1,1g In. Import of the but, said he felt that it was the only way In which Congress could extend relief, so urgently deeded by the farmers. Representative Garrett, of Tennessee said he saw in this hill \a determined effort to divide the Democratic party, and to make membeits of that party turn their backs on every principle of taxation, for which the party had stood In its whole history.\ During the day a number of Sena- tors entered the House chambers, and their presence there led to reports that they were prepared to talk the bill to death in the Senate. Many Republi- cans said they were almost convinced that the bill would not be passed there. Chairman Fordney of the Ways and Means committee said, in the course of the debate, however that he hoped to see Congress. at the extra session, sub- stitute for this bill a relief measure, which would- remain in effect until a scientific tariff schedule could be worked out. Convicted of Slaying Messenger. Camden, N. J.—Frank J. James was convicted- of murder in the first de- gree without any recommendation for mercy by a jury in connection with' the killing of Daves S. Paul, Camden bank messenger. • French Loan 30 Paris—Subscription to the latest French loan ' exceeded 30,000,000,000 francs, pt which 16,000,000,000 was in I ready money, says the Echo de Paris, i quoting an official of the finance ad - Ministration.. 300 ARRESTED IN SO. ST. PAUL. Surprise \Cleanup\ Drive Staged by Dakota County Officials. So. St. Paul—While police loitered on the street corners in apparent ignoranee of what was happening, forty private detectives, sworn in as deputy sheriffs of Dakota county, \cleaned up\ South St. Paul, raiding three alleged gambling dens and ar- resting nearly 300 men.. • The clean-up came as the result of the rise of pubfic opinion against the alleged inability of Mayor B. II. Baker and Chief of Police Andy Robinson to see flagrant violations of the gamb- ling and liquor laws, it is said. 105 RUSS RIOTERS EXECUTED Workers Strike When Denied Shorter Work Day and More Food. London—A serious labor, riot occur- rea recently in Petrograd, says a HO- singfors dispatch to the Central News, in which many persons were k:illed or injured. The riot was quelled add 105' labor- ers were executed, the dispatch adds. The trouble started when the Soviet authorities refused the demand of city laborers for more food and shorten- ing of the working day which Is now 1,13 hours. Begins Drive on Closed Shop. Chicago—Manufacturers of the na- tion served notice oil union labor that the intensive drive against the closed shop has started, when William But- terworth issued a call for a convention of big employers of the country. Armenian Soviet Annuls U. 8. Loan. London—The Armenian soviet in a proclamation has annulled all foreign loans, \especially the American loan,\ Which the Armenian workers have been toiling to , repay, says a Reuter I disuatch from Constantinople. KAHN DISCUSSES REVISION OF TAX New York Banker Advocates Levying a Flat Tax on ,Profits of Corporations., FAVORS HIGHER TARIFF Reapealing of Excess Profits Tax and Placing Tax on Sales Would Check Profiteering He Thinks. Washington—Establishment of a sales tax„ -repeal of the tax on excess profits, reduction of the higher rates on income sur-taxes, upward revision of the tariff and the levying of a flat tax on -profits of corporations, were advocated before the house ways and means committee by Otto H. Kahn, New York banker, in a comprehensive discussion of tax revision legislation. Mr. Kahn dwelt at length on the question of a sales tax, partly in re- sponse to indications in the committee that that sort of tax is gaining in favor. Chairman Fordney, before Mr. Kahn was called, said he and several other members believed some sort of sales tax would eventuate, but that they were seeking methods by which the tax would not be multiplied and the consumer unjustly • taxed in the final purchase. • As a result of the chairman's state - men Mr. Kahn discussed that phase of the problem. Advocating legisla- tive previsions whicli would require the tfe t to be made known in each sale and elded to the selling price as a separate item. Such an arrangement, lie said in his opinion, \would check the profiteering which has resulted\ from the excess profits tax. In his discussion of a need for a re- vised taxatioa program Mr. Kahn de- clared that American busines3 could not experience a healthy growth if the government continued \on a road of excessive taxation and continued to sorb the life blood of business through concentration taxes on income and capital.\ \Commercial Development Stopped.\ He added that \the tax burden\ had already actually stopped commercial development. \What has happened in the past,\ he continued, \can reasonably be ex- pected to happen again in the future. We have seen the end of this tax plan and have seen its disastrous results. It has forced every business house to run to banks for credit to conduct bu- einems, but finally the names ran (nit and the federal reserve board had to call a halt. \After this came the collapse in markets. It hit the farmers first but none have been spared and all busi- ness has felt the effects. The retailer has not been struck to -the extent that I fear he will. You can see from that what will happen unless the principle Is changed.\ One of the means suggested by Mr. Kahn for lifting the present tax bur- den was a funding of the victory notes and was saving securities. He urged payment out of taxes of th) treasqry certificates of indebtedness, however, saying it appeared this could be done without inconvenience before they fall due. DEFENDS SHIPPING BOARD Chairman Benson Says More Than a Billion Has Been Earned by Fleet. New York—More than $1,000,000,000 in gross revenue has been earned by the government -controlled merchant fleet since it began operations, Chair- man Benson of the Shipping board said in an address before the Municipal club ofeproeklyn. While tple board cannot show a profit as large as would have been the case if the fleet had been privately owned, Chairman Benson said, this billion dol- lars stayed in this country and but for the possession of a fleet built by the government, would have been spent for the use of foreign bottoms. Had there been no nation able to take up Germany's position when her maritime power was wiped out, he as- serted, \ocean carrying tonnage Add have been monopolized by Graat Britain, whose crying trade needs np- turally would have come first.\ RUMELY SENT TO PRISON Former N. Y. Publisher Convicted in Federal Court. New York—Dr. Edward A. Rumely, former publisher of the New York Evening Mail, and S. Walter Kauf- man and Norvin Lindheim wore sen- tenced to prison terms of one year and one day each in federal court here on conviction for conspiring .to withhold from the glvernmeei ;mewl - edge of the alleged German ownership of the newspaper during part of the war. CARDINAL DUBOIS Cardinal ',tubas, whose enrollment as archlalsAp of Paris took place recently at the Cathedral- of Notre Dame. Cardinal Dubois is- the first archbishop of Paris since the-Empire. GREEK KING ON THRONE Const4ntine Greeted with Cheers By People of Athens. 70 PhIlippinos Plead Guilty. Manila, P. I.—Seventy members of the Philippine Constabulary pleaded guilty here on charges of sedition in connection with the riots with Philip- pine military police, which resulted in eleven deaths. Bond Theft Suspect Caught. Washington—Isadore (pick) Cohn, long sought by the police of New York, Washington and other cities in con- nection with the $5,000,000 bond theft conspiracy of a year ago in Wall street, was arrested here. , • Was Returned to Former Status By Plebiscite in Which He Won By Big Majority. Athens—Constantine of Greece, re- moved from the throne by action of the Allied powers in 1917, and called back by the recent plebiscite to re- sume his former status, arrived in Athens. He came into the city by train and was , eceived at the Place de Le Concorde. Those who greeted the returning monarch included Queen Mother Olga, the regent, and Princess Anastasia, wife of Prince Christopher. Constantine's train steamed into the Laurion station without ostentation and with the returning monarch like an ordinary traveler. Constantine, howevet, was greeted by ,the cheering of thousands of persons who had been awaiting his arrival. Queen Mothen Olga and the Prin- cess Anastasia, dressed in Chinchilla furs and wearing picture hats to match were standing in the royal group tes welcome Constantine. The ministers also were „present ip the etatioa. People Dellriops With Joy. In a carriage drawn by six horses with outriders and followed by troops, a procession with Constantine at its head started for the stadium. The crowd along the route evinced the greatest enthusiasm, frequently break- Ing out of bounds and rushing up and kissing the harries of the horses draw- ing the royal equipage. Wild cheer- ing was heard along the entire line of march, the people being almost de- lirious with joy. After visiting the cathedral, Con- stantine went to the royal palace. where he read a message to the peo- ple. LANDIS RELEASES 'THIEVES Federal Judge Refuses to Punish Men After Wilson Pardons Cattle King. Chicago—Judge K. M. 'Landis re- fused to isentence six men charged with stealing 600 sacks of sugar from trains in interstate commerce . after learning that President' Wilson had last week granted a pardon to James J. Dorsey, of Gilbert, III., known as the \Millionaire Cattle King.\ Dorsey was sentenced to eight years in Lea- venworth by Judge Landis after con- viction of selling several thousand head f 'ubercular cattle throughout the Wept under forged . papers, repre- Renting them as government tested and healthy. La..t. July President Wilson cut the sentence to four years. At that time Judge Landis, in open court, declared he could not \understand the workings\ of the President's mind. \I can't sentence these men with the Dorsey thing fresh in my mind,\ Judge Landis declared in court. 'Dorsoy's activities ran into the thousands of dollars while these men stole only a few hundred dollars worth of mer- chandise. I will continue this case indefinitely. BANDITS LOOT WHOLE TOWN Postoffice, Station and Three Stores Robbed at Mound. Minneapolis—I3andits, believed to be members of a Twin Cities ring, car- ried out a systematic raid on the town of Mound, on the west shore of Lake Minnetonka, robbing the postoffice, the Great Northern station and three atoms of more than $3,000 in cash and merchandise and escaping without de- tection. \Crime Cruisers\ Launched in N. Y. IRISH HOME--ROLE'- .1)11 . 1-NQW.A -LAW House of Lords Agrees to All Amendments Made by the Commons. AWAIT ROYAL SANCTION Measure as Passed by Lords Provides for Creating Senates for - Both Northern and Southern Parliaments. London—The Irish home rule bill now is safe and will be placed on the state book in a form only slightly amended from the shape in which it first left the House of Commons. The House of Lords, after a brief debate, agreed to all the amendments made to the bill by the commons. The only amendment discussed by the Lords was that adopted by the lower house providing if either area in Ireland refused to set up a parliament the executive could not make the offer a ,second time unless within three years after June 1 both houses of the British parliament adopted a resolu- tion asking for it. Earl Midletoa objected to this time limit of three and one-half years and challenged a division on the question. He was defeated 91 to 14, whereupon this end the other commons amend- ments were agreed to without further discussion. Owing to a slight modification made in the House of Lords at the sugges- tion of Lord Birkenhead, the lord Chancellor, the bill again will have to - be submitted to the Hoare of Con - mens- es a formality and it probably will be - voted over before the royal sanction is. given. Two Senates Created. One of the principal changes ,made by the Lords is that Senates will be - created for both the northern and southern parliaments. As proposed by the government the question of the method of establishing the senates was to be left to the Irish parliaments. Another modification secured by the Lords is that instead of the council of Ireland being nominated by the two. parliaments, each Senate will appoint seven of its members and each Par- liament 13, making 40, while instead of the president of the council being the lord chancellor of Ireland, as pro- posed by the gtvernment, he will l b. nominated by the lord lieutenant,yan, the advice of the Crown., The Lords also defeated the proposal 314 tk••'•hash parliaments should htfve the power to levy a surtax. It is generally supposed that the government regards the bill as the ba- sis ,for future negotationa and with this idea has rcserved the questions of customs and excise from the bill. CHARGED WITH TAX FRAUD 011 King Sued by U. S. for Back In- come Tax. New York—The government brought suit against John D. Rockefeller for $292,678. charging that his income tax report was \Inccrrect mislead:1:g and false.\ The complaint alleged that in his turn, filed on March 28, 1916, Mr. Rockefeller \failed to Mauch. in it as part of his income 50,104 shares of Illinois Pipe Line company and 67,176 shares of the Prairie Pipe Line company.\ The suit was brought in Federal 'court by R. S. Owens, assistant Fed- eral attorney. A penalty of 5 per cent and interest thereon at the rate of 1 per cent from Juno 30, 1916, and costs, also were sought. 400 KILLED BY EARTHQUAKE New York—Twenty \crime cruis- ers\ were added to Now York's equip- ment for shattering the crime wave. Twenty automobiles, bristling with the latest automatic armament, carrying five policemen, made their initial cruises today. The crews, consisting of one sharpshooter, one uniformed man.and three detectivea, experienced in \strong artn\ tactics, conducted in- dependent investigations and worked with patrolmen. They are to 'shoot to kill' any criminal caught in the act. Wide 8tretchet of Argentina Flooded Following Tremors. Buenos Aires—The number of per- sons dead and injured in Friday's earthquake disaster now is estbnated at more than 400. This figure is based an reports from relief parties. Wide stretches of territory are be- ing flooded with water which continues to spring from crevices opened by the earthquake. Relief work is being carried on with difficulty. Large number13 of tents sent from Mendoza are furnishing shelter to hundreds made homeless by the disaster. MAY SEND GOLD TO RUSSIA U. S. Lifts Restrictlonc on Coln, Bul- lion and Currency. Washington—Restrictions on expor- tation of coin, bullion and currency to Soviet Russia, on dealing or exchange traneaction in Ituselan rubles, and on credit or exchange' transactions with Soviet Russia were removed by the Treasury and Federal Reserve board, acting with the approval of the State department. Request Made for Money. Boston—A request that he imme- diately send to Ireland the funds col- lected in the Irish liberty bond drive was telegraphed to Eamonn de Valera, \president of the Irish republic,\ by the Massachusetts council of the Friends of Irish Freedom. Italians Discuss Emigration. Rome—Attitude of the United States will regard to immigration was dis- cussed at a conference between the emigration committee' and the com- missioners of emigration. 5). t• - • ••
